See also Wook's blog for the other half of the Quantum computing/computer graphics blogalog.

Friday, January 08, 2010

New Factoring Record

New factoring record: 768 bits, about 1500 CPU-years on 2.2GHz AMD CPUs, 10^20 operations, 2^67 instructions (for some definition of "operation" and "instruction". Claims a 1024-bit number would only be about 1,000 times as hard.